Head of State Félix Tshisekedi has been staying since Friday evening in Dar-es-Salaam for a state visit from October 21 to 25, at the invitation of his Tanzanian counterpart, Samia Suluhu Hassan.
"The Head of State will begin his official activities, in particular with a tete-a-tete between him and President Samia Suluhu Hassan, before continuing with bilateral meetings," said a source from the Presidency of the Congolese Republic. .
The last meeting between the two Heads of State dates back to August 19, 2022 in Kinshasa, during the organization of the 42nd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
After this work of this sub-regional organization, Samia Suluhu Hassan had extended her stay in the Congolese capital, for an official visit sanctioned by a joint press release, underlines the source.
The Tanzanian President had identified, on this occasion, the areas in which her country and the DRC intended to collaborate, namely trade, security, defence, immigration, mutual investments and other port infrastructures.
"The current state visit of President Félix Tshisekedi to Tanzania is an auspicious occasion to sign a series of agreements in the aforementioned areas," the source said.
President Félix Tshisekedi's trip to Dar-es-Salaam is his third outside the country this month, after the United Kingdom where he met King Charles III and Ghana where he notably had a -a-head with his counterpart Nana Akufo, we note.
Continuation of exchanges in August 2022
The strengthening of DRC-Tanzania cooperation was on the menu of exchanges between the Congolese Félix Tshisekedi and the Tanzanian Samia Suluhu, on an official visit of nearly 4 hours, Thursday August 18, 2022, at the Cité de l'Union Africaine, in Kinshasa .
"The two heads of state stressed the importance of infrastructure development projects and the need to increase cooperation in the construction of road and rail infrastructure, in order to further facilitate trade between the two countries", had-- we underlined in the joint press release that sanctioned their exchanges.
In this context, the two Presidents were particularly pleased with "the progress of the road project going from Dar-es-Salam to Mwanza and Kigoma and which will link the DRC and Burundi, passing through Musongati, Bujumbura, Uvira to in Kindu as well as the imminent opening of the Tanzanian Bank CRDB in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa".
“Experts from both countries are working hard on the agreements that will be signed soon, in Tanzania, in the presence of the two Heads of State,” the joint statement concluded.
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The Company has finalised and priced two preferred routes which service the east and west coast of Africa for ports of export at Lobito in Angola and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
The two routes provide flexibility to ship product either way and mitigate situations such as a derailment on one allowing the operation to ship product to the other in the interim.
This strategy also optimises marine shipping for Americas and Europe-based clients versus eastern based clients.
The western route will also reduce the CIF costs for American and European clients.
The study has considered shipment of SC6 in dry loose bulk format and Primary Lithium Sulphate in 20-foot GP marine containers using a combination of truck road freight and rail and then ultimately marine shipping.
See below for the various transportation routes investigated by AVZ during completion of the DFS